Onsager's relations and Ecology
Choi, J. S.
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There are two complementary approaches to thermodynamics, one is an empirical, phenomenological representation of macroscopic states and the second is a model-based, statistical-mechanical representation of microscopic states. If only a few energy transformation steps are involved, macroscopic quantities such as energy and entropy can be estimated without ambiguity, and often the associated microscopic states are well characterised. Both approaches have been used to develop and guide many key early ecological ideas. However, most ecosystems are characterized by uncountably many transformations that operate on a wide range of space and time scales. This renders the bounds of such systems ambiguous making both the macroscopic and microscopic approaches a challenge. As such, the implementation of both approaches remain areas ripe for further investigation. In particular, the Onsager reciprocal relations permit simplification of expectations that are yet to be fully understood in an ecological context. Here we begin to take a few first steps in trying to understand the far-reaching ramifications of these thermodynamic relations.
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